QUIET-TIZE YOUR ELECTRIC FAN! MAKE IT RUN SLOWER AND BE MORE QUIET! CHEAP EFFECTIVE METHOD!

[@Jmateo12]

Thank you!!! This saved the day for me.... now I don't have to buy a new lower power fan! Thanks for the details too! Very well made video!

[@donosasxchanger6692]

Does this reduce the watts

[@Jmateo12]

@@donosasxchanger6692 yes, it reduces the overall watts plus the watts that the fan use. Just be careful because the incandescent bulb get hot even at that low wattage

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Who else is watching this with a noisy fan they just bought?😅

[@fayer-gi5jk]

me! mine is for school lol

[@ValPlex]

@@fayer-gi5jk SAME LOL

[@georgiabaieanderson1766]

Yes! Mine sounds like a speed boat engine 😭 trying to sleep with it on is awful

[@artzytoastvt]

Same

[@por3328]

Same 😅

[@wh0tube]

Thank you 🙏 its been really hot at nights and my fan is very noisy keeping me up. Tonight I will wire up a light socket before the fan and use a high wattage heat lamp from the bathroom to quieten it right down.

[@Moonlightshadow-lq4fr]

When electricity was much cheaper, I used to heat my house using 2 3kw radiators wired in series. This would do 2 things:- 1 being the heat output would be half of one radiator, each radiator would now consume only 750 watts a total of half the original amount of the original single radiator. 2nd is that the life span of each radiator is pretty much limitless as they don't get anywhere near as hot as they were designed for. The benefits were quite staggering because not only half of the electricity is being consumed but the heat output, even though halved was spread around and heated the house much more effectively! I used to wire up Christmas lights with a few extra bulbs in series to make them last for years, I have a set still working that is over 20 years old now :)

[@MyInnerTalk]

Great explanation! Finally someone who thinks like the way I can relate to... Thank You so much!🎉

[@alicomando1195]

Thanks i enjoyed from iraqi kurdistan Thus video was one of the rarest vudeo

[@jackjohansson10]

Thank you for your testing and explanations of wave lengths to the effects of the noise level!

[@fortnitebattleroyalefreevb9360]

Great video. I don't think it would be remotely applicable in my use case, but it was a very entertaining educational video

[@JavierRodriguez-lj4xm]

Thank you so much Larry I can now figure out proper reason to my household issue.

[@fvrrljr]

*my noise is squeaky noise not what i was looking for but stayed to listen so you get* 👍 *i'm just gonna throw WD-40 but if it shorts out problem solved* *glad i stayed to see your McGyver technique*

[@habiboil]

One of the very best video i have watched up till now.. Now at least i can hv a good nite sleep Regards from 🇵🇰

[@adid2750]

Why they don't make them slower to begin with?

[@LearningCS-jp4cb]

the numbers should keep going up

[@መድኃኒቴጌታመድኃኒቴ]

My vent was noisy during sleeping hours so i was using my technical knowledge to reduce the speed and the noise. I was sure i can make it quiet by using just a simple color coded resistor but you gave me a better method to use a light bulb 💡as resistor and it sounds nice. thank you sir 👏.

[@puffinjuice]

Very good explanation. I was thinking of using a dimmer, but I'm glad that you advise against it. Won't waste my money on a dimmer. Now I just need to find myself a transformer.

[@tonghwiekwee1166]

Thanks Larry, you definetely give me an alternative to lower the speed of my wall fan which is too noisy. Also thank for not recommending an electronic dimmer. Hope I will get it fixed.

[@Jamesnebula]

Really interesting, I've been into fans and air purifiers for years I was not familiar with this method. It particularly of interest because I find in the majority of cases one is trying to do what you are create a good quality silent low speed. That still moves enough air. So the variable transformers while they are the gold standard are very heavy and expensive but most of the time it's only the quiet setting one wants. Great video thanks

[@km4hr]

I just viewed your very interesting video so I haven't thought this through, but in AC circuits "resistance" is called "impedance". The motor's coils have inductance which alters the phase relationship between voltage and current. This complicates the simple V=IR equation used with DC circuits. The amount of phase offset between voltage and current is called "power factor". Some watt meters take PF into consideration in producing their readings. Perhaps you should try such a watt meter instead of simple volt and current readings to calculate power. But I'm just rambling. I don't know how much PF would influence the power readings of small fan motors. When I have time I may look into it since my watt meter has power factor included in its readings (I think). Thanks for the informative video. Well done!

[@LarryElterman]

You know more than I do, but i suspect the bottom line would not change very much, in other words the fan and the light bult will definitely use less watts than the fan alone.

[@raytannous7633]

Thank you. Perfect explanation

[@ElyziumPrime]

Very useful info. Much thanks.

[@por3328]

This was helpful. Thank you.

[@luminousfractal420]

grabbed one of those 5A red models from amazon, $50 one because vevor suck (no pun intended) and wont deliver the $30 one here. it worked like a charm 🙏🏼 your a godsend. i have an 18" on the wall and if my ear pointed that way the hum was horrendous, if i turned it was bareable. im kind of sensitive to these noises, they keep me in a high state of stress for some reason. but now its gone . just the fluttering of the fan blades at 90v, no burning smells so far (😂 ive had some bad speed regulators) even the metal frame has stopped vibrating. 👍 ty so much. wonderful man. i would have gone the bulb route but with the price of sockets and finding bulbs that will work these days i went with the red chunk. i need another for my extractor but they are pricey. (#vevor 🗡️👀)

[@ricklariviere8401]

Very informative! Thanks for posting.

[@christophernicdao5856]

Thanks Larry.

[@daviddewilde8041]

Thanks for sharing.

[@geniusmarcsays2434]

i did it... and it's magical... speed drops not to half ...but a lot more, no sound at all

[@LarryElterman]

That's great! glad it works, but the speed reduction is of course dependent on the wattage of the light bulb(s) you used.

[@wturber]

Does anybody know if it makes sense to take a 220 to 110 step down transformer to take 110v and step it down to 55 volts? In other words, if you fed 110v into a 220v step down transformer (a copper coil one in particular), would you get 55v out - and not create some other problem/hazard.

[@LarryElterman]

yes it would

[@michaelhoward8664]

I don't have anything that runs off 220 v. Can this work was 110 v.

[@kwacz]

yes

[@tirsden]

I'd actually be willing to shell out $100 for a regulator because I need to have a floor fan pointed my direction for health reasons (advancing peripheral neuropathy that makes it really hard for my skin to tell temperature and I end up feeling constantly too hot when I shouldn't). My previous box fan was tolerable but the motor finally burned out and the new fan is notably louder and pushes air too hard even on the lowest setting. I can see this being an ongoing problem because I hate online returns and I know any fan will burn its motor out at some point anyways. So thanks for the recommendation, now I'm lost reading Amazon reviews and wondering how to pick a regulator that won't burn out in two months or catch fire. x.x

[@grandtheftauto1233]

Hello - you should consider a fan with variable speed. I’d recommend the vornado energy smart fans - they can be adjusted from very slow to very fast. This will serve you better than trying to slow AC fans

[@luminousfractal420]

I had a fan like that but with an included 3 speed controller, i dropped the voltage to 75% using a fan regulator ($30 amazon)..it worked..but next day it was dead. Im guessing its the pcb that had issues.

[@DudokX]

very nice!

[@venugopal1845]

What if I use a voltage regulator that we use for ceiling fans in stead of bulbs

[@LarryElterman]

should work

[@arlenreyes4283]

What worked for me was to change the fan blades from 3 blades to 5 and it made wounders for me, lost some fan power but made my so much more quiet, probably wont work well if the fan is not powerful enough

[@LarryElterman]

if you can find a five blade set of fan blades that fit your existing fan!

[@jasone3166]

Thanks for the info. I've been trying to slow down antique electric fans that were designed to run on closer to 100 V instead of the 110 - 120 of today's lines. They do make transformers to run Japanese appliances (100V) on North American voltage and it works great for my 1916 12" GE but they are large and expensive. I am currently trying to slow down a tiny 6" GE from the 1920s and I'm looking for a simple, small and cost effective way to do so. I'll have to see if I can incorporate this method. I am curious why your house runs on 220V when you sound like an american and have american style plugs and outlets? I would expect 220V only for your oven and dryer.

[@LarryElterman]

i live in the philippines

[@Enter321]

Nice

[@themaltesephoenix]

I tried it out and it works fine. One question though, does this use more electricity? I mean will there be more electricity consumption in this way since it's powering two bulbs apart from the fan?

[@miyalys]

More electicity than what? In the video it's answered that that it uses less electricity >>compared to running the fan at full power

[@geniusmarcsays2434]

he already said it will use more if you use resistance.. but i have a transformer that changes from 220 to 110, and i used it, it's working perfect

[@LarryElterman]

@@geniusmarcsays2434 who said it will use more if you use resistance. Adding resistance always lowers the amount of electricity. It's basic Ohm's law.

[@juancarlosmartinez-sanchez6784]

How can I identify the type of motor I have in my fan? I tried to reduce speed with a AC motor speed controller BTA 16 600B 2000W and the fan makes a noisy buzz

[@Geniusinside2023]

He mentioned in the video don't use a dimmer, in your case speed controller, It will make noises

[@LarryElterman]

experiment. In most cases the light bulb method will work. Either that or it will cause a catastrophic nuclear explosion (just kidding)

[@rajusp1012]

Grate Sir

[@mrpentium]

Just buy a variable resistor and use your vary the speed. Can’t sleep with the light bulbs just as the noise Did.

[@LarryElterman]

it can work as long as the variable resister has the needed capacity, not that easy to find.

[@ergosum5260]

Just add some heat with incandescent light bulbs?

[@vicdreyer6413]

You're not adding any heat. The fan by itself was dissipating 48 W already. You just don't notice or think about that. Now the total dissipation is reduced to 38 W. So you've achieved your aim of slowing down and quietening the fan, AND you've reduced total heat output to 38 W.

[@wturber]

Also, why not just wire in a rheostat?

[@LarryElterman]

you could, but the problem is most variable resisters are designed for low current, hard to find one that can handle that load.

[@donosasxchanger6692]

Does this reduce the running watts??

[@grandtheftauto1233]

Yes

[@Akwasijup]

Or you can just put an ac capacitor in series to reduce power very efficiently

[@grandtheftauto1233]

Tell me more can I just add a cap in series on fans?

[@atoramirez2137]

​@@grandtheftauto1233just lower the value of capacitor that's all

[@LarryElterman]

I am not that smart in electronics. I don't doubt that your method would work, but again, the average person does not know how to add a capacitor. The light bulbs anyone can do. It's low tech.

[@daikiisano]

if u have a metal elecy, u can just bend it and the air resistance will make it slower

[@kwacz]

but this will load the motor down and cause it to use more electricity

[@evanschwab3261]

that table is SO shiny

[@pattsui1041]

Interesting

[@atoramirez2137]

Lower the value of the capacitor it will works

[@Dani-tw8cy]

Hi. How much should I download? Would a new capacitor of half the power of the original capacitor do the trick?

[@white3378]

Bruh is that really the only way

[@LarryElterman]

no, I gave several ways, did you watch the video bruh?

[@alexistokebec]

Damn its not that deep, if its just for white noise and its too loud put the fan inside a closet or further away

[@Spartacus4000]

It's not.. you want a gentle breeze but don't want to hear the fan

[@BillyBobDingledorf]

We've a fan that you'd need to move 100 feet away. It has three speeds. High, higher, and highest.

[@anddontcallmeshirley-]

Cheers Larry.